And Bob Gates, my Defense Secretary, has been really good about pushing hard on that.
My defense in this case will not be technical or legalistic: it will be categorical and absolute.
"After the Cotto fight I realized my defense wasn't what it should be and I had to hone my skills, " Mayweather said.
To my defense, many recent articles have also referenced the earlier Panagopoulos report and have not mentioned any later modifications to those reported results.
But in my defense, I counterbalance my Downton viewings with at least one hour spent with my chainsaw for every hour tuned into Masterpiece Classic.
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In my defense, none of these things were outlined in my job description, nor were they in the goals my boss had set out for me.
My defense of Newt was that although the IRS has taken that position, it has been mostly with people who have taken no salary at all.
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Okay, yes this is a shameless plug for my new book, in my defense we have had an immense amount of positive feedback from entrepreneurs for whom the book has transformed their businesses and helped them avoid the number one cause of business failure.
On the other side, early personal experiences, especially starting my career in the Department of Defense, molded my appreciation of the defining role government can play in the technology industry.
My counselor in middle school at the time, Ms. Artson, took time to listen to my arguments, maybe my hurt and defense mechanisms.
Certainly, I'll be involved in it and I'll understand what's going on, but I'm going to spend much more of my time on defense.
Not long after I learned about this practice by my insurance-defense colleagues (the business litigators like me did not engage in these practices) I saw an associate filling out 20 or 30 pages of a time sheet.
"If he would have been called as a defense witness, he would have exonerated my client, " said defense attorney Julia Gatto.
"I saw this area of the law as one that would be growing and dynamic, and it satisfied my professional interests in being a criminal defense lawyer and also my personal interest in computers, " she says.
"In the event that someone does get in my home, I would have no defense, except maybe throw my paper towels at them, " she said.
"He is fully competent and has been throughout my representation, " defense attorney Howard Tanner said.
' Called in my foreign secretary and defense secretary and talked it through.
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The majority of my practice involves medical malpractice defense, but I also deal with regulatory and compliance issues.
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First, I will instruct my lawyers to mount a vigorous defense using all available, appropriate arguments.
In September, I visited China, where my organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council, has been active for nearly 15 years.
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One writer, Ben Shapiro, whom I don't know, has already done that, and I must note my appreciation (see " In Defense of David Yerushalmi").
During my last tour as secretary of defense, I found it not uncommon to walk into meetings in the White House Situation Room and see more than a dozen people packed in.
To this end, leaders of six preeminent national security-minded public policy institutions - including the Heritage Foundation, the Claremont Institute, the Foundation for Defense of Democracy and my own Center for Security Policy - came together earlier this year to define such an agenda.
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But what we also have to understand is that if I take all the steps that I've put forward and Congress follows my lead on the non-defense discretionary spending, we're prudent in terms of defense spending, and we do all the things that we've talked about, we've still got this structural deficit that we've inherited.
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One of my colleagues suggested that he could head a defense contractor like Lockheed, but CEO-elect Christopher Kubasik, who was set to head the company in January, just resigned after a reported improper relationship with a female employee.
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